Wow! Thank you for the useful links, Quiddity! Your screencast about popups is a nice one btw!! :)
On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 10:04 PM, quiddity <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 1:35 AM, Charles Matthews < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> On 12 March 2015 at 15:10, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Following up on this: Cascadia Wikimedians may need some kind of >>> presentation outline or screencast along these lines by mid-April. If the >>> WMF education team and others can't create one by that time, we/I might >>> hack together a rudimentary version and put it on Commons for others to >>> reuse and/or build on. >>> >>> Does anyone have recommendations for screencast creation software, >>> preferably ones that are open source? >>> >>> >>> I started using a Chromebook last July, precisely because I wanted to >> make screencast videos. I would recommend the screencast app for >> Chromebook, simply because it is free and I could get quick results. (I >> don't know whether it is open source.) >> >> In this context, of training videos that will need to be changed soon, it >> makes a lot of sense to me to work with this sort of lightweight system, >> and develop an informal, conversational style - very much "live". >> >> Of course you need to do some rehearsal and scripting, but it is possible >> to get decent results after a few hours. (I do have lecturing experience: I >> probably like the approach for that reason.) >> >> Charles >> > > > Screencasts: > See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:SCREENCAST for a good resource about > screencasts. (And please help update it!) > > For linux, I really like > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Screencast/Software#RecordMyDesktop > - very simple and easy to use. > > I made this 40 second video using it: > https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Navigation_popups_quick_tour.ogv > (notes on talkpage) > The process took about 2.5 hours: half that time was getting the script > right, and the browser-tabs setup properly; and half was making about 50 > recording run-throughs before I had an error/stutter-free version. > The hardest (most labour intensive) part of any screencast-creation, is > getting the resources created and organized (script re-re-re-re-written, > images/pages selected). > > > VE screencast: > I too, would love to see a few VE screencasts. Ideally some very short and > high-velocity ones aimed at power-users (look at how awesome VE is now!), > as well as some more calm and polished (but still short) ones aimed at > newcomers. > > > VE GuidedTour: > There's also a task to make a more extensive GuidedTour for VE, at > https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T89074 > (See the old and very very basic (2-step) "demonstration" version, linked > at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GuidedTour#List_of_tours if > you just want an example to dissect/adapt. I hope these will proliferate > over the coming years.) > > > Hope that helps. > --Quiddity > > _______________________________________________ > Education mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/education > > -- Samir Elsharbaty, Communications Intern, Wikipedia Education Program Wikimedia Foundation +2.011.200.696.77 [email protected] education.wikimedia.org
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